Differences in coughing and other responses to intrabronchial infection with Bordetella pertussis among strains of rats

Author:

Hall E1,Parton R1,Wardlaw A C1

Affiliation:

1. Division of Infection and Immunity, Institute of Biomedical and Life Sciences, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom.

Abstract

Four strains of rats were each infected intrabronchially with approximately 10(8) CFU of Bordetella pertussis 18-323 encased in fine agarose beads. After 8 days, Sprague-Dawley rats developed the highest incidence of coughing paroxysms, as monitored with voice-activated tape recorders; Brown Norway, Lewis, and Hooded Lister rats coughed significantly less frequently. Marked leukocytosis, with counts up to four times the normal levels, and retardation of normal weight gain occurred in all four rat strains. Both coughing and leukocytosis were greater in animals that were infected at 4 weeks of age than in those infected at 6 weeks of age. Total serum immunoglobulin E (IgE) rose in all four rat strains 9- to 244-fold by day 8 after infection and returned to near preinfection levels at 6 weeks. Sprague-Dawley and Lewis rats, which had the lowest basal levels of total IgE in serum, showed the greatest degrees of elevation. All four rat strains had IgG to B. pertussis whole-cell sonicate and to filamentous hemagglutinin in 6-week-postinfection sera. However, the strains differed in production of IgG to pertussis toxin, with Sprague-Dawley rats having the highest titers and Hooded Lister and Lewis rats being nonresponders. These studies highlight the importance of rat strain as a variable in the coughing-rat model of pertussis and validate the choice of the Sprague-Dawley rats in previous studies.

Publisher

American Society for Microbiology

Subject

Infectious Diseases,Immunology,Microbiology,Parasitology

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